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How often do you have difficulty falling or staying asleep?

How often do you sleep at work or school?

Besides home, where have you slept?

How often do you sleep somewhere noisy?

Can you sleep standing up or in a chair?

At work, sometimes coworkers sleep in chairs on lunch, break, or on the clock. Break room often loud and crowded. Home Depot hires convicted felons and customers often have the nerve to waltz into the break room. There is no way I could sleep when it is so loud. How do they do it?

How often do you have a sleepless night?

How often do you pull an all nighter and what were you trying to accomplish?

How well do you function sleep deprived?

How often do you have difficulty falling or staying asleep?

Always, my whole life. I've needed prescription sleep meds every night for decades. I had a sleep study that showed my brain doesn't do the normal sleep / wake patterns on its own, so I need meds just like a diabetic might need insulin. I have apnea too, so I think that wakes me up.

Pre-meds it generally took me about three hours to fall asleep, and I'd wake up at the dawn no matter how much I tried to get back to sleep. I got about three hours of sleep per night, and none of it was Delta (deep restorative sleep).

Oh, another thing that helped is that I take ADHD meds now. They wake me up more in the daytime, so when they wear off I'm actually able to feel tired enough to sleep (with my prescription sedative.)



How often do you sleep at work or school?

Never - I don't work anymore but I had such bad insomnia I just walked around like a zombie all the time.
I was so tired I could have cried.



Besides home, where have you slept?

Besides a bed at bedtime? No where.
I can't even nap on my bed. It has to be bedtime or my brain won't shut up.



How often do you sleep somewhere noisy?

I sleep only in a bed, with 33db foam earplugs.
I can't sleep without earplugs.
If my partner snores or puts the TV on I have to sleep in the other room.



Can you sleep standing up or in a chair?

Nope.


How do they do it?

I have no idea.



How often do you have a sleepless night?

I'm lucky to get about 5-6 hours with my meds and earplugs.
I seldom have truly sleepless nights anymore because of the meds.



How often do you pull an all nighter and what were you trying to accomplish?

I stay up all night most nights because I like night.
I try to sleep in the day.
I've had a few all-dayers just from anxiety related to trauma, parenting, finances, etc.



How well do you function sleep deprived?
My whole life is sleep deprived and my Global Functioning scores are very low.

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How often do you have difficulty falling or staying asleep?
Frequently. Sometimes I will struggle to fall asleep for a while. Sometimes I will wake up early and not be able to fall back asleep. It's frustrating for sure. =(

How often do you sleep at work or school?
Lol. I don't do that. Can't say it's always been that way, though. Back when I worked nights and tried to do college during the day, I literally could not keep myself awake sometimes. It was so embarrassing. I remember even nodding out in orchestra with my instrument in hand!

Besides home, where have you slept?
Aside from hotels and stuff like that... Buses, break rooms, etc.

How often do you sleep somewhere noisy?
I sleep with fans. I can't fall asleep with noises that I don't control, though.

Can you sleep standing up or in a chair?
Only when I'm extremely tired/switching up my sleep schedules too much, like the aforementioned scenario I mentioned in the second question.

At work, sometimes coworkers sleep in chairs on lunch, break, or on the clock. Break room often loud and crowded. Home Depot hires convicted felons and customers often have the nerve to waltz into the break room. There is no way I could sleep when it is so loud. How do they do it?
Sleep deprivation. I nodded off in the break room at my workplace when I was doing both university and work. It wasn't something I'd ever do intentionally.

How often do you have a sleepless night?
Almost never. I have nights where I lose lots of sleep, though.

How often do you pull an all nighter and what were you trying to accomplish?
Almost never. The last time I recall intentionally doing that was, again, during the time where I tried to work, commute, and do college at the same time. Finals week, I pulled at least one all-nighter (on a night I didn't work) to get stuff done.

How well do you function sleep deprived?
Unless I'm to the point where I'm nodding out, I can function okay... As okay as I ever function I guess.

How often do you have difficulty falling or staying asleep?
Occasionally.
Sometimes I can't fall asleep in the first place for ages. Usually it's because my mind won't be quiet, but it can be hunger, lack of exercise, or inability to get physically comfortable. Also I tend to flog my intellect while I'm awake, and don't usually give it a rest during the hours before bed.

Sometimes I wake up after an hour or two and can't get back to sleep. Don't know what does that.

Sometimes I have "terminal insomnia" where I wake rather too early in the morning and can't go back to sleep. That seems more of a physical thing, can't get comfortable. So I get up early. It's been mistaken for an admirable virtue.

How often do you sleep at work or school?
Never. There was nowhere comfy to sleep, for one thing. Nor would I have felt safe.

Besides home, where have you slept?
Hotels, friends' houses, in tents, on a train from Paris to Rome. Never on a plane. Never at an airport - they make sure of that by playing noisy ads every 10 minutes throughout the night, and I don't want my baggage to be stolen while I'm asleep.

How often do you sleep somewhere noisy?
I can sleep with fans and with mp3s of rain and thunder effects and pink noise - anything continuous, and it helps if it's my own choice. Intermittent sounds, no way.

Can you sleep standing up or in a chair?
I've only once slept without lying down, and that was after being unslept for about 48 hours because of a long journey. I was in a chair at the time.

At work, sometimes coworkers sleep in chairs on lunch, break, or on the clock. Break room often loud and crowded. Home Depot hires convicted felons and customers often have the nerve to waltz into the break room. There is no way I could sleep when it is so loud. How do they do it?
I suppose they're exhausted.

How often do you have a sleepless night?
Almost never. I nearly always get at least a few hours' sleep, and usually more.

How often do you pull an all nighter and what were you trying to accomplish?
Very rarely. I take a long-haul flight between the UK and USA twice a year, and can't sleep. It's a pain in the butt because they encourage sleeping by dimming the lights and letting passengers tilt their seats back, and I don't like having to wake the passenger next to me so I can get past them to go and urinate.

How well do you function sleep deprived?
I function remarkably well but I feel ill - groggy and slightly sick. When British Airways screwed up my flight connection and caused me to be awake for much longer than usual, after I'd arrived home I was hallucinating. I kept thinking I could see people out of the corners of my eyes.

But it didn't debilitate me much. I described clearly to my family what was happening and hypothesised intelligently about why it was happening. My environment had been unusual for a couple of days, in that there were people all around me, which there normally hadn't been before because I'd been living alone for months with very little company. So I'd had to be alert to the approach of strangers in case they banged into me or wanted to say something to me, etc. Afterwards it took some time for the hypervigilance to wear off, and my brain was trying to go into sleep mode, which is when you get dreams, which are hallucinations. It wasn't scary or anything, just repeated momentary impressions in my peripheral vision that there was a figure sitting on a shelf or in some other strange place.